Sat.Apr 19, 2014 - Fri.Apr 25, 2014

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The 5 Ways Your Nonprofit’s Website Generates Traffic

TechImpact

'Image courtesy of Stable Cash Income. Driving web traffic to your nonprofit’s website is likely at the top of your to-do list. You’ve invested in it, consistently update the content, post to your blog, and market events through your website. So, of course you want people to see all that great content. Bottom line is, many, if not most, of your web visitors are arriving at your website not for the reasons you intended.

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ATTN NGOs: ?????,??, &.opr Are Now Available

Nonprofit Tech for Good

'Public Interest Registry – the not-for-profit operator of the.org domain – has launched the first registration phase, known as the Sunrise Period (beginning April 22), for three new Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs). Qualified domain trademark holders can now submit applications for each of these three new domains, which translate to “organisation” or “institution” in non-Latin-based scripts – one in Devanagari (.?????

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‘Why don’t you have a nonprofit data management plan?’ Q&A with Debbie Snyder and Gary Carr

3rd Sector Labs

'Third Sector Labs recently co-hosted a data management webinar with Debbie Snyder , VP of Sales & Marketing for Adcieo. The topic – “Why don’t you have a data management plan?” – focused on why you need, and how to create, a nonprofit data management plan. We had also blogged earlier on the topic. Debbie and Gary Carr , CEO of Third Sector Labs, co-presented.

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Nonprofits and Instagram: The Ultimate Curated Collection of Best Practices, Examples, and Tips

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

'As a content curator, I’m not just on the hunt for learning the new or what’s buzzing. But, a big part of content curation is organizing and presenting your collection. I don’t always share links as I find them, but because I use content curation to support curriculum development for my training work, I like to share collections that organized so people can take an hour or so and get up to speed on a topic or to use if you are doing a training.

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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10 Ways Nonprofit CEOs Get Creative

TechImpact

'Image courtesy of Dieste.com. What does the word innovation mean to you? Does it mean driving sweeping changes in a completely new business model? Changing the way the entire Earth’s population consumes a service or product? While both of these are great, it might be a good idea to start thinking of innovation on a micro scale. Innovation can be as simple as changing the content in you internal newsletter.

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Link Love Friday: Secrets to Member Engagement; Meeting Ambassadors and More

Wild Apricot

'This week''s link round-up offers 5 posts with ideas and tips on: membership engagement; volunteer recognition; small meeting reporting; writing like a human and non-profit blogs.

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Content Curation: The Art and Science of Spotting Awesome

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

'Flickr Photo by Soyignatius. Content curation – the process of finding, organizing, and sharing topical, relevant content for your audience that supports your nonprofit’s engagement or campaign goals (or your professional learning) begins with “ Spotting the Awesome.” I love that phrase coined by my friends at Upwell. Do you or your organization have formal guidelines for “ spotting the awesome ” like Upwell (see below) or is it more of ”we know

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9 Tech Trends Your Nonprofit’s Need To Know About

TechImpact

'Technology is advancing at blistering speeds. What’s new today is old tomorrow. Because of this, anticipating tech trends is the only way to ensure your nonprofit is staying ahead of the latest technology. Here are 9 buzz words and tech trends that your nonprofit needs to be on the look out for in the coming months and years. Software-defined networking.

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For Your Members' Eyes Only

Wild Apricot

'Do your website spring cleaning plans include looking at your members-only content?

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Mobility: We Cannot Afford Not to Take Advantage of It

NTEN

'Tomas Wojciechowski. Editor in Chief. Technologie.ngo.pl. Use of mobile technology is exponentially increasing around the world. Are the world's nonprofits keeping up? Explore ways nonprofits can build mobile technology into their mission-based work, and discover what the organizers of the Sektor 3.0 Conference in May are planning to do to get there.

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How to Design a Seamless & Personalized Digital Donor Journey

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio

The average nonprofit uses five or more different software platforms to create their donor’s journey, making the experience clunky and disjointed. If you want to design a magical online giving experience for donors, making their journey as seamless as possible is key. In this webinar with expert Tim Sarrantonio, you’ll learn the fundamental steps to create an immersive and personalized online giving experience for your donors.

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Top 6 Tips for Taking Your Cause Mobile

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

'Note from Beth: My colleague, Darian Rodriguez Heyman has launched a new company, BetterWorld Wireless. You not only get a great mobile wireless plan, but through their nonprofit giving partners, a person in need will receive a mobile device loaded with content to help break the cycle of poverty and empower their life. I’ve signed up and love the fact my my mobile broadband hotspot is helping someone in need!

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Infographic: 2014 Nonprofit Email Benchmark Report

TechImpact

'Everyone knows you have to use email to advocate for your nonprofit’s mission. But how effective is it? What are the important statistics? How is my nonprofit doing compared to the average? All of these questions are answered and more in the 2014 M+R Benchmarks Study. Some key statistics include: $324,890,672.61 has been raised through email fundraising.

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Feeding a Need: New App Helps Youth Find Free Summer Meals

Tech Soup

'Millions of low-income students rely on free or low-cost school meals. But when summer vacation starts, the school meals end. This means youth who had access to nutritious meals during the school year may be undernourished or hungry over the summer. The good news is: there are thousands of sites serving free summer meals to low-income youth. And there's a new free mobile app called Range that helps libraries, nonprofits, faith-based organizations, and others working with youth locate those

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Going Mobile: The Importance of Mobile Apps for Nonprofits

NTEN

'Danny Boice. Co-Founder & President. Speek. How can you utilize mobile apps to achieve maximum benefit? Learn the most common goals from the for-profit sector, and see how it translates to nonprofit organizations. When considering the development of a native mobile app for any of the app stores, you should start by contemplating what it is you really want to get out of it.

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Nonprofits Are Leveraging the Cloud, but Does It Have to Be So Complex?

Effectively managing cloud technology is getting more complex. From cybersecurity concerns, vendor lock-in, cost increases, or lack of transparency on costs, it can quickly get out of control. Knowing what you can control and finding a platform that’s built with nonprofits in mind is key.

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Techniques and Tools: How To Visualize Your Network

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

'Earlier this month I was lucky enough to attend the CATechFest in LA designed and expertly facilitated by Aspiration. What I really enjoy about events that Aspiration convenes is that they allow the time and depth for practitioners to share knowledge and strengthen connections. The participants are the content – and the design of getting participants into small group discussions where we can discuss topics related to our work that we are passionate about and want to explore and le

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3 Things Every Mission Statement Must Have

Eric Jacobsen Blog

'A lot of companies struggle when creating their mission statement. Author Peter F. Drucker provides the following good advice in one of my favorite book''s of his, The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Organization :" Every mission statement has to reflect three things : Opportunities Competence Commitment In other words, he explains: What is our purpose?

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How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework

Tech Soup

'Telework (also called telecommuting) is where an employee regularly does their work outside of the office, usually at home or when traveling. To be able to telework, people usually need five things: a computer or tablet, broadband Internet, access to work email, access to work documents, and a phone. Since not a whole lot is out there yet on the role of mobile devices in telework, I thought it’d be interesting to have a look a look at that.

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April Nonprofit Blog Carnival: The Work Behind the Work - Finding Productivity and Balance

NTEN

'I was invited by Nancy Schwartz to participate in this month’s Nonprofit Blog Carnival: The Word Behind the Work. Stay tuned to Nancy’s blog for a round-up of all nonprofit blog contributors on this month’s important topic. As a yoga instructor in my “other” life outside of NTEN, being productive without burning out on a busy schedule is a topic I think about often.

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Nonprofit Technology Kick Start: Free World Class Board Meeting Software

Looking for cost reductions for your nonprofit? Why not consider modernizing with a digital board management system that's designed to work with remote meetings, with immediate cost reductions if you still distribute paper packets to members? Get going in less than an hour on a fully hosted cloud solution built on the latest technology that runs on any device - from desktops to tablets and smartphones - without any installation.

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Nonprofit Innovation Toolkits: Methods To Invent, Adopt, and Adapt Ideas to Deliver Better Results

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

'Lately, I’ve been obsessed with methods for facilitating innovation for nonprofits. It isn’t a matter of facilitation techniques, but process design. The field of innovation practitioners, whether in corporate labs or working in social good sector, comes with lots of tool kits that offer different ways to help groups think of new ideas and prioritize them.

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5 Compelling Benefits Of Having An Ethical Culture

Eric Jacobsen Blog

'In Andrew Leigh''s book, Ethical Leadership , he provides these compelling and important benefits of having an ethical culture in your business/organization: Customers prefer dealing with companies who put ethics at the center of their culture. Most employees would prefer to earn less working for an ethical company than being paid more and working for an unethical company.

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Are your constitutents still engaging on Facebook?

Care2

'Earlier this year, Adobe released a Social Intelligence report based on consumer data from Adobe Social, Adobe Media Optimizer, and Adobe Analytics. While the data''s comprised of both aggregated and anonymous data from retail, media and entertainment, and travel websites during 2013 - 2014, the data is also useful for nonprofits to examine. This report answered a question that has come up for many of us, are our constituents still engaging as frequently with us on social media?

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Are you ready for your high-impact fundraising campaign?

NTEN

'Fundraisers, are you ready for your annual campaign? December might seem far away, but now is the perfect time of the year to get started with planning (if you haven’t already!). Need some inspiration? I came across a really informative guest blog post by Charles Whelan, president and founder of The Whelan Group , which appeared on the Foundation Center’s Philanthropy Front and Center-New York blog.

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Donor Engagement Guide: 8 Key Steps to Better Retain and Engage Donors

Are your donors your biggest fans, or are you lacking donor loyalty? The truth is, your donors have expectations of what their relationship with your organization should look like. This ebook will help you learn how to live up to those expectations!

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Why you want your nonprofit to fail

ASU Lodestar Center

'posted by Chloe Silva , Program Coordinator ASU Lodestar Center In a society fundamentally rooted in capitalism, how can nonprofits argue their worth when their work cannot be translated into a monetary sum? Increasingly, nonprofit organizations are looking for new ways to measure (and thereby validate) the importance of their work. Our organizations have been measuring outputs in one way or another for as long as there has been philanthropy.

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The Nine Steps of Planning a Successful Technology Project

Tech Soup

'Technology should be helping your organization, not holding it back. But in Idealware’s work with nonprofits, we often see organizations struggling with technology that limits their abilities. Luckily, some simple planning — along with great resources like TechSoup — can go a long way toward resolving problems and preventing future issues.

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How to Leverage Social Media for Your Next Big Fundraising Event

NonProfit Hub

'When was the last time you logged onto Facebook because you really wanted to see what was going on at work? Probably… well, never. That’s because social media outlets are a place we go to catch up on what our friends and family have been up to. To see what’s funny or interesting. To find things that we truly like and connect with. So where does that leave your organization in terms of social media?

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How To Make Your Written Communication Shorter And More Appealing

Eric Jacobsen Blog

'Author Joseph McCormack offers these six tips for ways of making your written communication shorter and more appealing: Deliver a strong title or subject line that''s your invitation. Limit your email to the original window. Make sure there is white space and balance throughout the text. Call out key ideas by calling them out in bold type. Start each bullet point with a strong word or catchy phrase.

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Nonprofit Technology Adoption: Why It Matters and How to Be Successful

Organizations like yours are increasingly realizing that technology adoption is only as good as the technology you choose. Statistics from a 2014 NTEN study show that seriously investing resources in training for your staff corresponds to higher adoption and ultimately technology effectiveness. In this report, we’ll give you a high-level overview of how to get your organization in shape for technology adoption and best practices for facilitating this critical process.

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13 #npEXPERTS Share their Most Valuable Donor Acquisition & Fundraising Ideas

Connection Cafe

'Due to the incredible response we received the last time we brought together leading nonprofit experts to share their best fundraising insights, we decided to do it again! That’s right – we’ve rallied 13 nonprofit thought leaders to share their best fundraising strategies, tips and ideas with YOU. In our latest installment of npEXPERTS – “ Cupids Arrow: Targeted Strategies to Acquire Supporters “ - you’ll find 36-pages of thoughtful advice on donor acq

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New to TechSoup: BetterWorld Wireless Mobile Devices and Service Plans

Tech Soup

'Need a new mobile plan or a donated smartphone? TechSoup has partnered with BetterWorld Wireless to bring discounted mobile services and donated devices to eligible nonprofits and public libraries in the U.S. BetterWorld Wireless is a new network operator that offers mobile service plans (voice, text, and data), data-only service plans (3G and 4G LTE), and new or refurbished mobile devices (including smartphones, tablets, and hotspots).

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5 Ways to Give Your Fundraising Strategy an Upgrade | Third Sector Today

AFP Blog

'5 Ways to Give Your Fundraising Strategy an Upgrade | Third Sector Today : The need for nonprofits to continuously reinvent themselves, to offer trending solutions and to make use of technology in the realization of their fundraising strategies is on an all-time high. The golden question now is: How do you keep up? How do you keep growing the work you’ve done’ This might have been a difficult feat for nonprofits before, but now, the opportunities are endless.

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Questions You'll Likely Be Asked At Your Next Job Interview

Eric Jacobsen Blog

'Many Human Resource (HR) managers have moved away from questions like "What''s your weakness?" and prefer behavior-based questions , which ask you to: describe how you handled specific situations at your former jobs If you are about to interview for your next leadership position, be prepared for questions like these (from an article in Reader''s Digest ): Tell me about a time when your integrity was challenged.

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Achieving Organizational Transformation: Pathways to Success

Association executives—and hopefully their boards—know that they are facing perilous times. Driven by the pace of cultural and technological change, they are experiencing major disruptions in the traditional business models that used to guide organizational growth strategies.orgSource offers a straightforward approach to navigating these changes and readying your organization for growth.